posted December 07, 2017 01:57 AM            

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Originally posted by T:
Btw teasel (& others)

If you haven’t heard about or tuned into this show, you might want to.

TLC, Mon nights

[b]The Healer

I think you can still watch the first episode for free on TLC’s website: https://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/the-healer/

I’m about to watch the latest episode and then hit the hay. [/B]

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posted December 07, 2017 01:58 AM            

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Originally posted by StubbornVirgo:
Thank you, teasel!

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You're welcome. I don't know if she still works in that area, but I've been acquainted with her on and off, for twenty years now.

posted December 29, 2017 09:11 PM            

What a rollercoaster of a year. I've learned a lot about the healthcare system, and life, this year.

posted December 29, 2017 11:18 PM            

Roller coaster, ~yeh.
Like an old saying goes....
Was the kind of ride where you gripped so hard that you left your fingerprints in the steel rod in front of you?.
Really glad you made it through.

posted December 31, 2017 02:00 PM            

I'm thinking again about the CBD oil. Someone said in a GP group, that it has helped with nausea, and relaxes them.

posted January 01, 2018 08:22 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
A new year, a new opportunity.

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posted February 04, 2018 12:45 PM            

And it's not just that, but the fear. I've lost count of people who sent chain mails online even apologizing for it, but the fear was too much that something terrible would happen to them if they didn't. They know it's irrational but are still enslaved by it (and hating themselves for it). Hysteria is easy to provoke, history is filled with it, and then there are many times that it's barely even noteworthy (I recall more than one on LL thinking Ebola was going to be the end of our civilization, for example). Heck, when the trick or treaters and Halloween parties dropped substantially a few years ago I got suspicious and found that sure enough there was another fear mongering lie spreading (this one ), but few were willing to admit to that. But I'd seen it so many times that I suspected it (and ended up correct) from the start, once I noticed the Halloween was incredibly subdued from the previous year.

And yet I'm repeatedly told I'm too cynical, even though I'm not the one fearing immanent disaster or plague or what have you, have been dismissive of chain letters, and my reactions to certain things (like if the Halloween really was the "666th one" or that a singer supposedly worships Satan) is "So what?" I suspect that people don't like me being cynical because they're constantly wrestling with irrational fears and "to speak of the devil is to make him appear" (thus the effectiveness of chain letters, for example, or being sure Ebola will destroy us).

I know some believe that by faith (of which the overly simplistic "Law of Attraction" is but another example of) protects people with plenty of glurge about believers spared disaster (for example, the old story in many forms of a rapist who says he could not rape the good Christian because he saw someone, apparently an angel in retrospect, or otherwise God stopped him...but gave him a pass at the next woman). That belief has hurt a lot of people in more ways that one, but it sounds like they could not function if they didn't believe it. (Though there are others who see faith as a balm against pain rather than protection from evil.)

So I'm generally careful with how I joke around and kid, unless I know someone is able to handle it. There was a time I used to joke around until I learned they couldn't handle it, but now it's the reverse, I have to know they can handle it before I do it (though that said, I'm amazed at how easily people can be driven to do cruel pranks, like for Jimmy Kimmel).

The last time I refrained was on a woman who reacts in entertaining ways to RWBY. She's so cute with all her RWBY dolls as she watches, but she was getting startled and upset over recent developments and dropping her dolls. I wanted to kid with her about her dropping the dolls repeatedly with something like, "They are not forgiving. They know when you sleep, and will have their revenge." (That's a lighter example of my gallows humor--and btw, humor is one of the healthier ways to deal with stress and fear.) I'd want her to be amused, but I figured that she might actually become scared (even if she knew it was irrational) and come to find her dolls too uncomfortable, so I refrained. The human mind is simply too fragile.

posted February 05, 2018 09:21 AM            

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I'm generally careful with how I joke around and kid,
unless I know someone is able to handle it. There was a
time I used to joke around until I learned they couldn't
handle it, but now it's the reverse, I have to know they can
handle it before I do it (though that said, I'm amazed at
how easily people can be driven to do cruel pranks, like for
Jimmy Kimmel).

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Well the thirst for fame can make people do all kinds of stuffs, even the ice-bucket challenge and the recent one I've heard about, marshmellow challenge, in which you basically need to put more marshmellows in your mouth than your oppopent to win the challenge.
hmm I'm usually careful about the topics which I bring to the conversation coz not everyone is interested in the ones that I'm interested in( you know, occult and the likes) and some get really weirded out when I bring them up, a girl actually refused to watch this video of concert of ACDC which I sent to her, coz the guitarist was wearing horns lol, so if she can't handle that then there's no chance she can handle what I bring to the table. That said, I can converse easily about "mundane" stuffs too.
I haven't done the same about jokes though, my girlfriend(or is she an ex now I'm not sure, relationship status: complicated) used to easily handle my outrageous jokes(usually sexual, coz that's what rings the bell of most people), so I was kind of in that sort of mindset of throwing around sexual jokes here and there, but after taking few bumps with other people I kind of realized that eh I should not joke much online or atleast put a "jk" and a " " at the end to tone it down a bit, take the little bit of sting out of it, sort of, so atleast it's digestible for them. But well, sometimes I forget and that's when the sh@t truly hits the fan.

posted February 06, 2018 12:01 PM            

Lot of people coming all of a suddden and going all of a sudden in my life, makes me feel like an airport.

posted February 17, 2018 12:02 PM            

I don't know if this was an intentional joke or not, but it tickled me Anony. What a way with words! I would maybe have added "with a revolving door", but we don't need to labour the point, I guess.